Brett Hudson, [email protected]

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hsbrett44
45 / M / Straight / Single
Houston, Texas
Education Graduated from college/university
Job Military
Offspring Has kids, and might want more

My self-summary
I am an outgoing,faithful,loving and caring person who lives life to the fullest. I enjoy sports and outdoor activities. I am looking for a good hearted woman who I can spend the rest of my live with. Someone that I can tell my secrets to,who will be there for me for me, and someone that I can depend on.

I’m looking for
Girls who like guys
Ages 40–58
Located anywhere
For long-term dating



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Brett Hudson
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BP
hsbrett44
Member Since: March 18, 2012
Sex: Male
Age: 45
Location: Houston, TX

To [email protected]
Opened 2012/10/12
Location Lagos, Nigeria (86% likelihood)
Opened on 41.220.69.82.vgccl.net (41.220.69.82:36984)

https://badoo.com/0346346147/
Thompsom Christain, 49
London, United Kingdom

i work with the US Army ,am a soldier

This scammer also has another profile and name that he uses on FB and other online dating forums.

Paul Mill, [email protected]

he's using the standard story that he's in the military, a "1SG" who is often sent out on "special missions" to Afghanistan that are classified. He will only communicate via Yahoo IM, and always tracks your IP - he'll actually send it to you via IM to confirm your location. He won't send you any emails directly from his own yahoo account (probably because it's easier to track an IP that way) and only wants to communicate via IM chat. he'll want you to go on cam with him, but will say that he can not get on cam himself because it's against the rules. when you ask him to get on cam for a chat in his tent during down time, his laptop does not have a web cam or "hear phones". he will not supply a military email or an APO address of a base he's at, won't say which base he's deployed from or to, citing it's a "matter of national security" to all of it. Army emails & APO's are not classified, please do not fall for this. they are not even classified for special ops personnel. Even though he is on a "special mission" he is on IM chat pretty much 24/7, even while in the "control room" leading those "special missions". The phone number that he gave to me went straight to voicemail with the automated "This Majic Jack customer is unavailable" so he's obviously utilizing this to generate & create local numbers after confirming your location from your IP.

he is using a different picture for this name & account, but it's the same scammer.
https://www.facebook.com/paul.mill.315

Hi SVSunshine, did you end up chatting and having a relationship with this scammer or did you post from having suspicions? They also love Yahoo chat because they can draw you into a personal conversation quickly and get you hooked on the romance more easily. I loved chatting with my scammer, as he made me feel important and cared about right away. Amazing how the scammers think Army personnel have time to sit and chat on duty.

He tried to, but I saw inconsistency's right from the start. I think it helped that I actually dated a SSG in the Army, so I knew better than the things he said. Then I did a search for the Paul Mill name he is using on Facebook, and saw that his only guy friend was the "Brett Hudson", so I searched on that name and photo on Google and found this forum. He likes to use all caps, he likes to call you "princess", as in, he would never use my name - probably easier not to mess up who he was talking to. About 3 days after we started chatting he was shipping out to his special mission with "the boys", that's what he likes to call his fictional men, "the boys". Once he fictitiously arrived in Afghanistan, he didn't know the correct time there (he thought it was Veteran's Day over there, with the "boys going crazy" because of the holiday, when in fact, it would have been a Tuesday morning, and I have yet to meet a serviceman who thinks Veteran's Day is a party holiday) and had to ask me what time it was where I am. He used the "special mission" excuse to not answer a lot of questions, and if you push him on it, he tends to get a bit heated and start to bully you. I wouldn't back down and give in, so then he'd change tactics and go for the "I want to build a life with you" game, which he started talking about right away and I never encouraged, and actually discouraged saying we didn't know each other that well, and we should just get to know each other over chat until he was back and we could meet in person. He didn't like that. He likes to talk a lot about God and military service, and also likes to use the "good men put their life on the line every day for freedom" heart strings - which is very true, and sickening that he's using this ploy. Whenever I would start to ask too many questions, then there would be some "incident". Two of his men shot and in the hospital. Then they were okay, but then some huge firefight where 4 of them went down and 2 were killed - all the while he was in the safety of his "control room" conducting mission communications and on Yahoo IM, but it could be him tomorrow. He also would often say he was on conference calls to DC about matters of national security that had to do with the mission.

This guy's knowledge of the military is limited at best, as in, the kind of knowledge you would get from reading novels or watching hollywood movies, so as someone who knows more than 1 person in the military, I knew right away. But other women, who haven't had any exposure to the military, they wouldn't know. Always ask for a military email - they are NOT classified, and they are very specific. And it's how every person stationed oversea's has ever communicated with me while they were deployed, emails from their military ID, not sitting around 24/7 on Yahoo chat IM.

That's great that you knew all that beforehand and I'm sure you provided plenty of frustration to him because of it. What's interesting is you caught on right away to a lack of details. That's the thing with people who get scammed- you think you're having this great, in depth conversation and in reality there's very little substance on their part. Easier to talk of love and relationships. T
his one really liked sounding important and I'm sure that has gotten him a lot of attention and money along the way. Thanks for posting and being smart about what you knew

I would hate for anyone to fall for this guys scam, and any info I can share to make it harder for him I will.

he would like to tell me I had "trust issues" and that I needed to learn to let go otherwise I would never find a relationship (which, he contacted me, I wasn't looking). In my head I was thinking - yah, I have trust issues, because I know you are a liar.

Anyone who comes in contact with Paul Mill aka Brett Hudson should be very very careful, especially about the video chat. He will want to view you, but will never get on cam himself citing the excuses of national security, he'll get in trouble, his personal laptop doesn't have one, but he can view you via a secure platform from his military computer while in the control room conducting missions - and he'd start asking me if I would do "naughty cam" for him to relieve his stress from a hard day where his men got shot / killed. I absolutely refused to go on cam with him unless he was on cam as well , and absolutely no to that (seriously???? I hope women don't fall for this one). Please, everyone, REMEMBER, your video chat can be recorded by the other person on their end. He'd also ask me to send him "naughty pictures" thru IM or to his yahoo email (which he'd never reply from - probably so that I wouldn't have an IP to track, I would think because his Brett persona got tracked to Nigeria that way), all barely a week after chatting. No way would I do this. Please, everyone, as one woman to another, if a guy starts asking for inappropriate video chats & pictures when you don't even know them, don't do it!!

Also, another good tip is if you are chatting with a soldier, and you have doubts, simply ask them for a picture in uniform (their name will be visible on said uniform) where their name patch is showing, holding up a piece of paper saying "hi {your name}" I asked him for that, and of course he couldn't comply, saying "why would I do that? What am I going to get out of it?"

Also, this guys English and grammar have the standard red flags to look out for. At first, I just thought maybe he was bad at spelling, but rather quickly it became very obvious (maybe just because I am a stickler for grammar and spelling) but it wasn't the best. It could easily be passed off as bad spelling, but sometimes he just didn't compose sentences correctly and said things in an odd way. A couple of times, I actually felt like I was talking to a different person, so there may be more than one person who is chatting.

You probably got the standard Nigerian chat. They often use excuses that they grew up somewhere else- mine was French- to cover it up. The video chat and pictures- it usually doesn't work but there are some that have recorded ones and they can fake it. The naughty pictures are often used later as blackmail and I know, they will ask anyway. Nice about asking for the picture- that's a good way to get a reality check.
You did all the right things. Glad you posted this here- some really great suggestions for what to look for. You might even help by posting some of these under headings for the military scams. Sometimes people have a hard time believing someone in uniform isn't who they say they are because we expect them to be honest people. That's what makes them extra low scumbbags.

This person is using another name now: David Rudy Jensen. He claims to be in Afganistan for a peace mission. He is using the picture thats above this topic.
I was talking to him via Skype for one week now, he found me on a dating site called Badoo.com.
He didn't ask me for naughty pictures or money (yet) but because his grammar was bad, I got suspicious andI ran his picture through Google image search. This topic popped up. I've already sent him the URL of this topic so he knows he's busted!
What a loser!

Hi,

Update: I have found this posting and website when doing a Google search by image.

I met somebody using one of the pictures you show below (the frontal face one) in the dating website ALT.com (username: Daddy_Affection) where he joined on August 6th, 2014. He says his name is Thomas Stone, stationed at Camp Casey in South Korea, retiring on October 29th, 2014, after 27 years serving the US Army.

Also, he claims to have an only sister, in rehab for the third time. He feels guilty she became a drug addict (for being left alone when he joined the Army). But, he still uses "princess" and the "special missions", disappears for a few days, chats when on duty, and his responses seems like "copy and paste" from someone else's writings... not like a person normally talks or chats...

I'm not in contact with him since last October 21th, when he must realize I wasn't "feeling it" or going to get anything from me. Though I am worry he still can see my IP address location from the email I sent him and have pictures of me, no nudes but still...

I tried to report him on the dating website, but I have the feeling they are not going to do much. He uses another image as his main profile pic, also wearing military gear. And just a couple of days ago, he posted a new one. I am not an expert but I would say is the same man... How did he get that new pic?
Somebody even posted a comment in his profile in ALT.com regarding his pics being used as part of a scam and another person "being" or almost "being" one of his victims, which it makes 3 already counting me... But the account is still activated.

Besides those in his profile, he sent me three more pictures; one of them is the frontal face from this website. I found out that 2 of those 3 images are also reported in another website for scammers (where is said he has being using at least other 2 different names from the one here and from mine, just this September 2014). And, something about a Korean Drama copyright ??? not sure about that...

His email address is [email protected], possibly created between October 5 and October 15, 2014. I checked the IP address from the only email he sent me and it belongs to a "corporate" account in Mountain View, CA, also reported in a couple of "spam control" places.

His Yahoo Messenger ID is army_tstone where he has 2 pictures, the one he uses as profile pic in the dating website and again, the one you have here with the frontal face.

I do not know what else I can do, since he actually did not "scam" me. I have saved all the messages, emails and pics... any suggestions? He seems unstoppable...

Thank you,
fde

He contacted me with the same story. He got to the point of asking for me to send money via paypal to buy dungeon furniture before he came back from S. Korea. Not gonna happen. I created another account and he hit on that one too. But he is now deactivated, although his yahoo seems to be still active.

Hello,

I am from germany. My english isn't well, but I hope you will understand me.
One month ago i get a romance match on Tinder. His name was Brett. We have a normal talk. He told me, he have a daughter and his wife died of cancer. At some point he ask me, if we can talk about kik, because it is easier. His ID on kik is bret4luv and the complete name is Brett Hudson. He explain me he work with US Army and will settle after the job to germany. Any time later he ask me, if I can help him. He have a problem with a package in Turkey. I said him, I can't help. Then he tell me ok he goes to Turkey by himself. Two days later he ask me for help with the shipping amount. I am also answer I can't help him and that I think he is a scammer. He was sad, but he continued to write.
He told me he is falling in love and I believe it although I had a bad feeling.
The long and the short of it I sent him 200 Euros for help. I don't want sent him over western union or money gram. He give me a banking account in Ghana. As I ask him why Ghana he said, he get to Ghana to take any dokuments and the account is from a friend. Yes I was naive, but I thought when he continued his write although I said to him what I think about him, it can't be wrong.
I don't know, why I search his name on google, maybe bad feeling, but I am glad I do it.
I always in contact with him and I want to help maybe with the support of kik or tinder.
That I lost the money is stupid, but it wasn't so much. I think it give women they pay the shipping amount. I read this in a other treat.

Great Dea